'If it helps just one other parent, then it’s worth it': The story of my autistic sons

Denis Deasy has written three novels that recount with humour and poignancy the challenges of raising Denis and James

Denis and Joan Marie Deasy with their sons Denis and James.

Denis Deasy is a family man working remotely in IT and living with his wife and two sons. Nothing unusual with that, but his home life is far from typical.

His eldest son, also Denis, is 30 and has Asperger’s Syndrome (a more able form of autism) while James, 25, is severely autistic and completely non verbal.